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This comprehensive guide is an ideal reference work for film specialists and enthusiasts. First published in 1984 but continuously updated ever since, CineGraph is the most authoritative and comprehensive encyclopedia on German-speaking cinema in the German language. This condensed and substantially revised English-language edition makes this important resource available to students and researchers for the first time outside its German context. It offers a representative historical overview through bio-filmographical entries on the main protagonists, from the beginnings to the present day. Included are directors and actors, writers and cameramen, composers and production designers, film theorists and critics, producers and distributors, inventors and manufacturers. An appendix includes short introductory essays on specific periods and movements, such as Early Film, Weimar, Nazi Cinema, DEFA, New German Cinema, and German film since unification, as well as on cinematic developments in Austria and Switzerland. Sections that crossreference names around specific professional groups and themes will prove equally invaluable to researchers.

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Formative Assessment in a Brain-Compatible Classroom

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How can students knock the top off any test? Thats one of the 14 key questions that Dr. Marcia L. Tate answers in Formative Assessment in a Brain-Compatible Classroom: How Do We Really Know They're Learning? Although teachers find some types of assessments difficult to grade, these assessments are often the only way to know how well certain students are learning. Tate describes the theories behind various assessment types and addresses specific ways to create brain-compatible learning environments that foster high achievement. Educators reading this book will be able to maximize the use of assessment, empowering all students to succeed.

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What does it mean to lead in a learning environment, as opposed to a system of knowledge transmission? A community, as opposed to a bureaucracy? A customer-oriented organization, as opposed to a public monopoly? To create truly powerful learning environments, school leaders must focus the lens on leadership, school improvement, and leadership for school improvement. In Leading School Improvement: A Framework for Action, author Joseph Murphy pulls together 14 practitioner-based articles to present a cohesive narrative about the unique and critical role that leadership plays in school improvement. Murphy clearly identifies key factors that shape the future of any school and explains the work that leaders must do to ramp up academic press and foster a supportive culture for school improvement.He goes on to unpack the concept of leadership practice, focusing on principles and values that define excellence in leadership in schools. Personal characteristics and virtues, such as persistence, passion, courage, and integrity, count more than behavioral descriptors, he argues, and meaningful, productive leadership cannot take place without them. This book guides todays school leaders toward that ever-essential goal.

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Joyful Teaching in an Age of Change: A SOAR-ing Tale

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This story will ring familiar to every teacher working to prepare students for an increasingly complex, rapidly changing world. The young squirrels and blue jays must learn to fly to a nut tree far in the distance, a task that has never been accomplished before, but the flight instructors arent sure how to teach all of them to do it. After trying direct instruction to no avail, they realize that the only way to help the youngsters succeed is to give them the skills theyll need to figure it out for themselves.  In Who Moved My Standards?, author Michael D. Toth provides a touching parable that inspires educators to tackle rigorous new standards with renewed confidence and enthusiasm. The book includes a Resources section with the SOAR (Students Opportunities for Achieving Rigor) Rubric, a companion tool to standards-based lesson plans. The rubric drills down the differences between traditional (old economy), student-centered, and real-world applied (new economy) techniques for gathering student evidence. Teaching becomes easier and much more enjoyable as students take responsibility for their own learning and the learning of their peers. This engaging story will help educators and learners soar higher and farther than they ever imagined.

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The Sacrament of Reconciliation for Teens

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This book is for anyone who is hesitant about Confession. "Our understanding of the sacrament reveals our image of God. If our image of God is one of an uncompromising judge, then the sacrament can fill us with dread," Father Paul begins. Instead of coming to Confession to avoid judgment and hellfire, Farren paints a picture of the sacrament that has a loving God behind it who longs for a restored relationship with his children. There are two who confess: God and the penitent. In fact, God is the primary confessor when he confesses his forgiveness for and trust in the one who is celebrating the sacrament. Confession is about God's great love for us!

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Improving Playing Speed for Sports Competition

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The best and most comprehensive book ever written on the improvement of playing speed and quickness for team sports competition by speed gurus George Dintiman and Bob Ward. Based on the research findings of hundreds of scientific studies and the experiences of elite coaches and practical scientists, this book covers all aspects of training to improve performance in the start, acceleration, and overall speed in short sprints in a practical, easily understood manner. Includes everything you ever need to know about how to get faster and improve speed for football, baseball, basketball, soccer, field hockey, lacrosse, rugby, tennis, and other sports.

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This textbook breaks the complex world of partnership taxation into manageable groupings. Within each group the topics are presented in an organized and easy-to-follow manner. Each topic covered includes numerous examples and practice tips and raises questions about the actual application of specific rules. At the end of each grouping, students are encouraged to bridge the gap between the technical rules and real-life application by applying the rules to a comprehensive fact pattern. The second edition incorporates the latest information on the treatment of start up expenses, the special allocation rules, and qualified joint ventures. It also includes a series of practitioner checklists. 

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Cameron Bloom, his wife Sam and their three boys were a normal family - until a near-fatal fall left Sam paralysed and sunk into a deep depression. But in the darkest days of Sam's struggle a new and unexpected member of the family came into their lives - an injured magpie chick abandoned after she fell from her nest, who became known as Penguin Bloom.

The Blooms rescued Penguin, and in return she saved them in ways they could not have imagined; through the newest and most feathery addition to the family, Sam found a new joy and strength.

Penguin Bloom is a story of how compassion, friendship and support can come from unexpected quarters. This plucky little magpie reminds us all that, no matter how lost, fragile or damaged we feel, accepting the love of others and loving them in return will help to make us whole.

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SOLUTIONS OF NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

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Existence Results via the Variational Approach

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Variational methods are very powerful techniques in nonlinear analysis and are extensively used in many disciplines of pure and applied mathematics (including ordinary and partial differential equations, mathematical physics, gauge theory, and geometrical analysis).In our first chapter, we gather the basic notions and fundamental theorems that will be applied throughout the chapters. While many of these items are easily available in the literature, we gather them here both for the convenience of the reader and for the purpose of making this volume somewhat self-contained. Subsequent chapters deal with how variational methods can be used in fourth-order problems, Kirchhoff problems, nonlinear field problems, gradient systems, and variable exponent problems. A very extensive bibliography is also included.

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You are about to embark on a wonderful adventure as you travel through the pages of Penny on a Friday wit Bob.  He gives you a humorous insight into a mischievous childhood growing up in Lancaster in the 1920s-30s and 40s.

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California Legal Research, Second Edition

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The second edition of California Legal Research continues to fill a unique niche in the literature available for California state law research, explaining both the sources of California law and the process of conducting research using those sources. This edition includes enhanced coverage of online sources, and WestlawNext, Lexis Advance, and free Internet sources are covered throughout.

After introductory chapters devoted to the basic research process and research techniques, California Legal Research explores judicial opinions, the state constitution, statutes and legislative history, and administrative law. The book then turns to updating research with Shepards and KeyCite, using secondary sources and practice guides, and planning a research strategy. A final chapter explains legal citation, with information on the California Style Manual, the ALWD Citation Manual, and the Bluebook.

The book should be valuable to a wide range of audiencesfrom first-year students to seasoned veterans. Outlines of the research process and excerpts from key state sources make the book easy to use. The text includes brief discussions of legal analysis throughout, recognizing the interplay between research and analysis.

California Legal Research supplements its detailed discussion of state research with brief discussions of federal research. Thus, it can be used as the sole text in a research course or in conjunction with texts focusing on topical or federal research.

This book is part of the Legal Research Series, edited by Suzanne E. Rowe, Director of Legal Research and Writing, University of Oregon School of Law.

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and Suzanne E. Rowe, Hether C. Macfarlane, Aimee Dudovitz

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This book is the culmination of 87 years of stories - a trilogy
to finalise the life of Bob Pearson - stories of real humour albeit at times self deprecating.
From a Penny On Friday to A Peg Leg Hero and now Three Bobs Worth - A trilogy of the life of a boy from the Lancashire cotton Mills through the Second World War to his time in Australia - a country that is dear to him and his family. 
(Hope everybody enjoys my stories as much as I do) 

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A trusted handbook for more than a decade, Peter Colletts bestselling guide to body language, How to Tell What People Are Thinking, has been fully updated with the latest research, including insight into everything from Zoom meetings to the confounding world of online dating.

Understand what people arent saying and what youre unwittingly revealing about yourself

How does the way someone use their feet show if theyre interested in you?

Does knowing someone really well help or hinder your ability to tell when theyre lying?

Why do people in business meetings touch their face while the boss is talking?

How can you spot likely winners and losers at sporting events just by looking at them?

How to Tell What People Are Thinking (Revised and Expanded Edition) answers these questions and explains how certain clues provide insight into peoples innermost thoughts. Social psychologist Peter Collett decodes the fascinating intricacies of body language and speech, analyzing behaviours that range from boardroom bravado to date-night deceit. Packed with both famous and everyday examples, this is an entertaining and invaluable guide to our societys language of unconscious communication.

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Surviving the Wilderness, My Family and Myself

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER

From the author of the bestselling memoir North of Normal comes the harrowing story of a past that wont let go, and one womans attempt to put her life back together after everything falls apart

In her bestselling memoir North of Normal, Cea wrote with grace about her unconventional childhoodher early years living in a tipi in Alberta with her pot-smoking, free-loving counterculture family. But her struggles do not end when she leaves her family at the age of thirteen to become a model. Honest and daring, Nearly Normal reveals the many ways that Ceas unconventional childhood continues to reverberate through the years.

At the age of thirty-seven, Cea has built a life that looks like the normal one she craved as a childhusband, young son, beautiful house, enviable career. But her carefully art-directed world is about to crumble around her. As she confronts the death of her still-young mother, the disintegration of her second marriage and the demise of her business, all within a few months, she finally faces the need to look at her past to make sense of her present.

The Globe and Mail says Persons best gifts as a writer are her memory, her knack for knowing when to dig down into the finer details of a scene, and when to pull back. Nearly Normal chronicles the many stories Cea left untold but that needed telling. Settled into a new and much happier life after the release of her first book, she is nonetheless compelled to continue searching for answers about her enigmatic family. She discovers the value in the lessons they taught her, and the power of taking responsibility for her own choices.

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The Rise to Power of Pierre Elliott Trudeau

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Finalist for the J.W. Dafoe Book Prize

A Hill-Times Best Book of the Year

Nearly twenty years after his death and more than thirty since his retirement from active politics, Pierre Elliott Trudeau is at long last receding from the lived memory of Canadians. But despite the distance of time, he still holds court in the minds of many, and today his son Justin now lives at 24 Sussex Drive, his own man, though still a Trudeau holding Canadas highest office.

Trudeaumania is about Pierre Trudeaus rise to power in 1968. This is a story we thought we knewthe epic saga of the hipster Montrealer who drove up to Ottawa in his Mercedes in 1965, wowed the country with his dictum that the state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation, rocked the new medium of television like no one since JFK, and in scant months rode the crest of Canadians Centennial-era euphoria into power. This is Canadas own Camelot myth. It embodies the quirkiness, the passion and the youthful exuberance we ascribe to the 1960s even now. Many of us cherish it. Unfortunately, it is almost entirely wrong. In 1968 Trudeau put forward his vision for Canadas second century, without guile, without dissembling and without a hard sell. Take it or leave it, he told Canadians. If you do not like my ideas, vote for someone else. We took it.

By bestselling and award-winning author Robert Wright, Trudeaumania sets the record straight even as it illuminates this important part of our history and shines a light on our future.

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Canada is lauded the world over as a law abiding, peaceful country - a shining example to all nations. Such a view, also shared by most Canadians, is typically naive and misinformed. Throughout its history, to present day and beyond, Canada has been and will continue to be home to criminals and crime organizations that are brilliant at finding ways to make money - a lot of money - illegally.

Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada is a remarkable parallel history to the one generally accepted and taught in our schools. Organized crime has had a significant impact on the shaping of this country and the lives of its people. The most violent and thuggish - outlaw motorcycle gangs like Hells Angels - have been raised to mythic proportions. The families who owned distilleries during Prohibition, such as the Bronfmans, built vast fortunes that today are vested in corporate holdings. The mafia in Montreal created and controlled the largest heroin and cocaine smuggling empire in the world, feeding the insatiable appetite of our American neighbours. Today, gangs are laying waste the streets of Vancouver, and "BC bud" flows into the U.S. as the marijuana of choice.

Organized crime is as old as this nation's founding, with pirates ravaging the east coast, even as hired guns by colonial governments. Since our nation's earliest times, government and crime groups have found that collusion can have its mutual benefits.

Comprehensive, informative and entertaining - as you will discover in the remarkable period pieces devised by the author and the illustrations commissioned specially for this book - Iced is a romp across the nation and across the centuries. In these pages you will meet crime groups that are at once sordid and inept, yet resourceful entrepreneurs and self-proclaimed champions of the underdog, who operate in full sight of their communities and the law. This is the definitive book on organized crime in Canada, and a unique contribution to our understanding of Canadian history.

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The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner and Other Stories

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New York Times Bestseller

Do you believe in magic? Can you imagine a war between wizards? An exciting journey in an airship or down in a submarine? Would you like to meet the fastest truncheon in the Wild West?

The Witchs Vacuum Cleaner is the second fabulously funny short-story collection from the late acclaimed storyteller Sir Terry Pratchett, author of the beloved and bestselling Discworld fantasy series. A follow-up to Dragons at Crumbling Castle, this second batch of storytelling gems features stories written when Sir Terry was just seventeen years old and working as a junior reporter. In these pages, new Pratchett fans will find wonder, mayhem, sorcery, and delightand loyal readers will recognize the seeds of ideas that went on to influence his most beloved tales later in life.

As Neil Gaiman says, a Terry Pratchett book is a small miracleand The Witchs Vacuum Cleaner proves to be another miracle taking its place alongside Pratchetts astounding and cherished body of work.

Fourteen early tales from a master storyteller reveal the wit and whimsy that would define a legend.

Wizards and Witches: Meet a witch who prefers a vacuum cleaner to a broomstick, and witness a wizarding war where the spells get personal and the furniture pays the price.Gnomes and Trolls: Join a colony of gnomes on a daring lorry-driving escape from a department store, and follow three trolls on an epic quest for a magical gem that takes them all the way to the moon.British Humor: Welcome to the Wild West of Britain... in Wales, where the fastest truncheon in town must stop a train robbery and clean up a feud between rival ice-cream men.Magical Adventure: Explore the extraordinary imagination of a seventeen-year-old Terry Pratchett in stories featuring time-traveling televisions, submarines made from walnuts, and an ant who decides hes had enough of being just a number.

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Honoring the Mysteries of Love and Relat

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This companion volume to Care of the Soul offers more of Thomas Moore's inspiring wisdom and empathy as it expands on his ideas about life, love, and the mysteries of human relationships.

In Care of the Soul, Thomas Moore explored the importance of nurturing the soul and struck a chord nationwidethe book became a long-standing bestseller, topping charts across the country.

Building on that book's wisdom, Soul Mates explores how relationships of all kinds enhance our lives and fulfill the needs of our souls. Moore emphasizes the difficulties that inevitably accompany many relationships and focuses on the need to work through these differences in order to experience the deep reward that comes with intimacy and unconfined love.

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Emma Jordan has returned home after her fathers death to run the animal sanctuary that had been his legacy. But strange things start happening, and it seems that someone is out to shut her down, someone who doesnt mind putting lives in jeopardy to see it through. When Hidden Falls sexiest fireman starts to ask questions, Emma needs to make sure his charm doesnt distract her from keeping her dreams alive.

Ben McQuaid has an obligation as a local fireman to protect the community, even from a well-meaning wildlife veterinarian whos in way over her head. But, its becoming hard to keep his loyalty to the town and his desire for the pretty vet separate. As Ben and Emma become caught in a dangerous game of cat and mouse, their feelings for each other are growing.

Will they let duty drive them apart or will they dare to fall?

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An adult fantasy tale that will surely resonate with young adult readers, Ashes to Fire is the story of a queen's desperate journey to secure peace, and the even greater journey to discover herself. Ashes to Fire is the captivating and adventurous follow-up to Emily B. Martins Woodwalkeronce more with cover art by the author!

You are a country.

Those words have been the guiding force behind Queen Monas every move since she was a little girlthe idea that all her actions and desires were, first and foremost, decided based on what was best for Lumen Lake. It had kept her alive after the Alcoran invasion, it had driven her to retake her country, and now it is the steely resolve she needs to finally confront the despotic Seventh King, Celeno.

But when her diplomatic mission finds herself on the run through the swamps of Cyprienaccompanied by the unlikeliest group of companionsMona discovers that while she is her country, she is also someone who has been sheltered by principles and bound by past mistakes. Now she must struggle to reshape her view of the world and face intimate new truthsnot only for the good of her country, but for herself, as well.